{"id":24314,"date":"2025-04-28T08:18:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T12:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24314"},"modified":"2025-04-28T08:18:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T12:18:34","slug":"insurers-not-required-to-cover-medical-marijuana-federal-judge-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24314","title":{"rendered":"Insurers not required to cover medical marijuana, federal judge rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By: Jakob Emerson for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A federal judge has dismissed a proposed class-action lawsuit that aimed to require insurers in New Mexico to cover medical cannabis as a behavioral health treatment.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/policy-updates\/insurers-not-required-to-cover-medical-marijuana-federal-judge-rules\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/policy-updates\/insurers-not-required-to-cover-medical-marijuana-federal-judge-rules\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"wp-image-14819\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dreamstime_m_45697802health-insurance.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dreamstime_m_45697802health-insurance.jpg 2121w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dreamstime_m_45697802health-insurance-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dreamstime_m_45697802health-insurance-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dreamstime_m_45697802health-insurance-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By: Jakob Emerson for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) A federal judge has dismissed a proposed class-action lawsuit that aimed to require<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21,200,48],"tags":[228,503,385,1749],"class_list":["post-24314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-health-care-finance","category-health-insurance","category-mental-healthbehavioral-health","tag-behavioral-health","tag-health-insurance-companies","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-medical-marijuana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24315,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24314\/revisions\/24315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}